It's disgraceful to see the way many schools rape the studylink-funding accounts of those individuals whom they have already written off as no-hopers with no possible future in this industry.
Totally agree with you there LaunchPad, just the other day I heard an account of a student at one of the larger schools who had failed 40+ exams (obviously an over estimation) who was still under training......... To a degree, and a watered down version might work in civilian school, the military have the right approach - you attain certain milestone within curtain limits or you're gone. The issue being that while on a student loan the student (and unscrupulous school) will just go on and on and on spending money trying to realise the dream when quite frankly flying might not be for them.
Less funding will result in schools be more selective and those who are left to self fund might come to conclusions about their future sooner if things are consistently 'off course' so to speak ......!